Everything Happens for a Reason

Have you ever heard of “things happen for a reason”? Well I am a firm believer of this quote. I feel like if I didn’t make the choices I did in the past I wouldn’t be here where I am today. Back when I was in high school I made some unwise decisions that caused me to get kicked out of school and be on home studies. Everyone who I thought were my friends never cared to give me a call a text or even send me an email to see how things were going for me. I did meet new friends while I was on home studies but they were on a different road than what I wanted to take. They were a bad influence but I learned my lesson already. But I did have a friend from high school that called me every day and messaged me and would still want to hang out with me. Sergio became my best friend, whenever I had a problem or was getting stressed he was my go to person always listened though he never really gave me advice unless I asked him too and that’s what some people need sometimes, is just someone to listen and to not scold them for the mistakes that they have committed. Although he did admit to me that he was disappointed in my choices that caused my expulsion. As the year was almost over I had the opportunity to stay on home studies and graduate a year earlier or go back to high school at that time I just missed being social with people I wasn’t thinking the advantages I would have if I had graduated a year earlier. As I went back to school I met up with Sergio and he should me where my classes would be because I had already forgotten where the rooms were located at. The friends I once had close relations ships before my expulsions had now became strangers to me. So I didn’t bother catching up with them since it seemed that I lost in what they have been doing for the past year. In December he asked me out I was hesitant because we had such a good relationship as friends I was scared that...

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"Burn the other, they must plant found
Regions other interval, the machine should do. "
- "Son! remember this word
The father, the mother, the teacher must not forget "
- "Here near you near him
There should iron grinding on metal "
-Eat remember who planted trees
Name expectation remember him when old.
-Com shirt parent letters teachers
To work that day completed on
-O continent humbled not bear words the teacher
-From the monk, the sell themselves monk.
-Thin a plaited father, thin three plaited teacher
1. Học thầy không tày học bạn: We learn not at school but in life.
2. Không thầy đố mày làm nên: Nothing can succeed without the help of the teacher.
3. Ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây: When eating bamboo sprouts ,remember the man who planted them
4."Uống nước nhớ nguồn": When drinking water, remember its source
10. Có chí thì nên.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
11. Méo mó có hơn không.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
12. Bá nhân bá tính.
So many heads, so many minds.
13. Bắt cá hai tay.
To run with the hare and hold with the hound.
14. Thả con săn sắt, bắt con cá rô.
To throw out a sprat to catch a mackere.
15. Cười người hôm trước, hôm sau người cười.
He laughs best who laughs last.
16. Ước ao làm sao, của chiêm bao là vậy.
The wish is father to the thought.
17. Cha nào con nấy.
Like father, like son.
18. Nước đục thả câu.
They fish in troubled waters.
19. Họa vô đơn chí.
It never rains but...